User blog comment:Bartholomew Billberry Bowstring/Mossflower Country & Beyond/@comment-3474228-20140623163453/@comment-3474228-20140626051236

Sterling, having anticipated a question like this, smiles faintly. "Do ye remember Fara and Firuz? They were killed in this very town at th'paws o' bloody corsairs and vermin pirates. Scores more of our kin 'ave been captured and forced t'mine in th'quarries t'find those stones the Lord o' Sampetra so desires. Not only will we steal those stones, but we'll also free those slaves."